The 200,000+ km thread

Passed 145,000km the other day. ....
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Hyundai still going strong

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I actually liked Randy's helpful insight on his Suzuki. Hope he saved that and will report once it hits 200,00km.

Right now I'm still enjoying my two cars with less than 100,000km on.
 
Rouxenator said:
Those are the best kind of cars, where the mileage is way too low for the age.
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Actually that's usually a bad sign if no FSH is available.

I bought my first car with this reasoning(but no FSH), but I think it had the mileage "turned back", and when it was being sold (I traded it in at a dealer but the seller was some private seller) I found it online and the milage advertised was 100000km less than when I sold it.
 
Good point. I never buy cars without FSH.

One thing to keep in mind with such cars is that most of those kilos could have been while the car was cold if it was only used for short trips. Compare that to a rep car that has high mileage but far less cold starts.

So know the history of the car before you buy.
 
On a less serious note, cars driven mainly short distances will also have to have their exhaust systems seen to earlier than ones that do longer trips more frequently.

I was once driving behind a Polo that I suspect was used only to buy bread and milk on the odd occasion. The filter light turned orange and the driver gunned it (he was still a fair bit away from the actual intersection) through to make it in time and took the corner a bit violently. There must have been around a litre of condensate that promptly shot out of his exhaust as he took the turn. Looked pretty scary and I can imagine having all that liquid in the cat and the resonance chamber cannot be good for a car :erm:
 
Sinbad said:
Ml turned 274M today on a 1000km round trip.
Picked up a small leak from the coolant expansion bottle, and more scary, the master cylinder seals packed up at the top of a hill. Managed to nurse it home, now to find some place that sells the seal kits.
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Master cylinder has been refurbed, but while I was bleeding the brakes I found a crack in one of the lines between the cylinder and the abs unit.
Dealer price for a preformed pipe is about a grand, special order from Germany.
Brake guys who did the cylinder reckon it's easy to bend one to shape yourself...so tomorrow, going to see how easy it is to get them off.
 
Sinbad said:
Master cylinder has been refurbed, but while I was bleeding the brakes I found a crack in one of the lines between the cylinder and the abs unit.
Dealer price for a preformed pipe is about a grand, special order from Germany.
Brake guys who did the cylinder reckon it's easy to bend one to shape yourself...so tomorrow, going to see how easy it is to get them off.
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You just need an small aircon/refrigeration pipe bender and flaring kit. Probably easier to get the sample off and take that to a brake specialist and have them make it up.
 
airborne said:
You just need an small aircon/refrigeration pipe bender and flaring kit. Probably easier to get the sample off and take that to a brake specialist and have them make it up.
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Depends how convoluted the pipe is ;)
Might be easier to hack it, ie take simpler routes than the oem
 
My 1995 Corolla 180i GSE:

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Has a few minor niggles which is to be expected after 20 years, but mechanically in great condition and still drives like a dream. Hardly use it much these days, so mileage will tick over slowly.

Its still my baby from campus days, so cant bear to sell it for sentimental reasons. More of a spare car now which gets used occasionally.
 
Your Corolla has just been run in! And some dude on Gumtree will probably still pay R40k for it, never seen anything with such insane resale values relative to age and mileage as a Corolla.
 
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My car was a few km short of 200k this morning... as it was rolling into a tree :o
 
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